Operators aim to ring the changes in downloads-to-mobile market: industry aims to develop new revenue streams as well as to expand slow-growing sector

Music Week, June, 2004 by Joanna Jones

One key issue facing the mobile music community is why downloads to mobile have taken so long to take off-in the UK market.

The challenge was highlighted earlier this month by the platform developed by US operator Chaoticom with Czech telecoms operator Eurotel Praha, which won the best in show gong at the Mobile Entertainment Market's MEF Awards for its Eurotel Jukebox.

Chaoticom uses a compressed and secure music format called Koz to enable high-quality music to be downloaded over the GPRS mobile network onto handsets. Eurotel Jukebox is among the first to provide full-track downloading service to mobiles in Europe.

But the launch of the Eurotel Jukebox service raises key questions. Why--with the exception of mmO2's O2 Music--are full-track...